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The 1979 Winston GT season was the 9th season of the IMSA GT Championship auto racing series. It was a series for GTX class Group 5 cars and GTO and GTU class Grand tourer cars. It began February 3, 1979, and ended November 25, 1979, after fifteen rounds.
The Ford Mustang GTX was an American GT race car constructed to compete in the GTX category of the IMSA GT Championship series by Ford.Originally based on the second generation Ford Mustang (known as the Mustang II), and later the third generation Ford Mustang (commonly referred to as the "Fox-Body Mustang") road car, built between 1979 and 1983.
The 1971 season was the first racing season, and lasted six races. The early years of the series featured GT cars, similar to the European Group 2 and Group 4 classes, divided into four groups: GTO - Grand touring-type cars with engines of 2.5L displacement or more, [ 5 ] the letter O meaning "over 2.5L".
The IMSA SportsCar Championship, currently known as the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship under sponsorship, is a sports car racing series based in the United States and Canada and organized by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). It is considered the pinnacle of sports car racing in North America, attracting top-tier ...
The 1978 Camel GT Challenge season was the 8th season of the IMSA GT Championship auto racing series. It was the first year of the new GTX class, which allowed for Group 5 cars to compete. The GTO and GTU class Grand tourer cars remained from before.
All American Grand Touring (AAGT) [10] was maintained by IMSA between 1975 and 1989. [11] These cars were All-American, V8-powered, used a maximum of 5 forward gears, and used a steel tube frame (similar to the type used in the SCCA Trans-Am Series), and were designed to compete against heavyweight European manufacturers and machinery of the time, such as Porsche and BMW, who were dominating ...
Electramotive would be unable to find much success until the final round of the season at Del Mar, with the GTP ZX-Turbo closing the season with a sixth-place finish. Although Nissan managed to take an improved fifth in the constructor's championship, they still earned only a sixth of the total points that champion Porsche had.
The following is a list of circuits that have hosted International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) SportsCar Championship races from the inaugural season in 1971 up to and including the 2024 season. The list includes the combined IMSA history of races held as part of the IMSA GT Championship , the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series , the American ...